Revision as of 03:46, 25 February 2014

Emacs is available on the BSD variants either through precompiled binary packages or user-compiled ports. Installation instructions vary according to exact OS.

FreeBSD

To install the most recent prebuilt binary package of the (at the time) most recent stable version:

# pkg_add -r emacs

To install emacs without X11 dependencies:

# pkg_add -r emacs-nox11

Or use the ports to build from source:

# cd /usr/ports/editors/emacs && make install

Developers may find "Using Emacs as a Development Environment," from the official FreeBSD project documentation, a good starting point. Some of the config tweaks are a bit dated and might need updating. But overall it's a reference